Deadline- May 30, 2013
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences(SIDA) is organizing international training program in Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights (GRIP) for implementation frameworks on genetic resources at the national and institutional level.
Objectives-
- to assist participants to understand the background and the implications of the recent developments related to IPRs and exchange (access and benefit sharing/ABS) of genetic resources and related information
- to enable participants to find, use and draw conclusions from sources of information and expertise world-wide, related to IPRs and exchange of genetic resources
- to enhance participants’ managerial efficiency to handle, address and deal with genetic resources and intellectual property rights issues. This will be done with a view on how to facilitate participants’ understanding on how to develop appropriate IPR instruments for beneficial partnerships between various actors in regional or international settings
- to improve participants’ ability to catalyse the development of intellectual property rights policies and corresponding implementation frameworks on genetic resources at the national and institutional level .
Contents–
- Background on Genetic Resources and IPR and ABS regimes
- Global conventions/International agreements/Patent regimes
- Institutional and national intellectual property policy and management issues
- Developing functional national and institutional policies and frameworks
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